ELITE Digest – September 2021

Volume 1, Issue 1   |   ELITE Digest   |   September 2021

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ELITE Monthly Digest Inaugural Issue

Welcome to the start of the 2021-2022 Academic Year! As we continue to restore, evolve, and transform, ELITE has taken this opportunity to streamline our communications into one monthly Digest. We hope that this Digest serves as a catalyst to enhance your ability to contribute to student success by providing you with engaging, enriching, and empowering content.

Each edition of the Digest will feature ELITE’s Multicultural Moments, Teaching Tip of the Month, Returning to Work: Tip of the Month, and a Personal is Pedagogical Faculty Showcase. In addition, the Digest will highlight upcoming professional development opportunities and feature an interactive game to highlight reusable learning objects created by H5P.

To coincide with the launch of the Digest, ELITE is thrilled to announce the re-launch of the HUB – a virtual space for teaching resources. Click the video below to learn more!

Thank you for taking a moment to read the NEW ELITE Digest! If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know.

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Academy for Teaching Transformation

ELITE’s Academy for Teaching Transformation is an instructional professional development opportunity for MC faculty and instructional staff members.
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Inclusivity and the Olympic Games

Olympic events highlight athletic skills, perseverance, and triumph. The current pandemic added another layer of challenge to the games as athletes had to adapt in many ways. But the Tokyo Olympics had an additional highlight—one of inclusion. This issue of Multicultural Moments presents a few examples.
Please click here for more…

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Connecting with Your Students

Tip 1: Since attendance is very important in all SRT courses, taking attendance can be time consuming. We need to keep record of students who attend our daily lectures and class meeting. Also, most DL courses have 1-2 virtual meetings that require taking attendance.
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Another Perspective: VUCA 2.0

You may be familiar with the acronym VUCA that the United States Army War College first used following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
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How Empathy Informs Instruction: Tools and Strategies for Empathic Remote Teaching

During this ELITE Personal is Pedagogical Podcast, Takoma Park Education Faculty and Coordinator Brandon Wallace showcases his empathic educational style and how it informs his teaching.  He discusses the special challenges that educators face during this period and how faculty can assist students during this unprecedented time.
https://youtu.be/mPAT7WdXO8Q

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